• Eligible person should inform to the Grama Niladari within 7 days of the death is occurred.
• Grama Niladari shall send a report to the registrar of the area
• The death will be registered by the registrar of births and deaths of the area where the death has occurred.
• Obtain the declaration of death from the register. Duly filled declaration of death shall submit to the registrar of births and deaths of the area.

Duly filled declaration form

Department of Registrar General's

No: 234 /A3,

Denzil Kobbakaduwa Mw,

Battaramulla,

Sri Lanka.

Telephones: +94-11-2889488 / +94-11-2889489

Fax Nos :+94-11-2889491

Email: info@rgd.gov.lk, rgd@sltnet.lk

Website: www.rgd.gov.lk

Persons eligible to give information

• Close relation present at the death.
• Close relation who look after at the death.

If there is no relation as given above

• Relation who residing in the area of the registrar division where the death occurred.

If there is no relation as given above

• Person present at the death.
• Occupier where the death occurred.

If there is no person as given above

• The person who cremate or buried the body.

• Death may be register free of charge within a period of 03 months. Death can be registered after 03 months. Please see the delayed registration of deaths.

Explain the time until which the certificate/document is valid.
e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever

Please attach documents which can be used by people who would like to follow this procedure.    

Please attach sample completed documents which would help other people who would like to follow this procedure.    

Please explain the processing your application.    

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications. 
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type="website">video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
Please remove the "&" inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver, 
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M" Video ID is "Y0US7oR_t3M". 
	

• Inform the Grama Niladari within 07 days of the death is occurred.
• Grama Niladari shall send a report to the registrar of the area.
• The death is registered by the registrar of births and deaths of the area where death has occurred. Declaration of death can be obtained from the registrar.
• Eligible persons may give information to Grama Niladari.
• Death may be register free of charge within a period of 03 months. Death can be registered after 03 months. Please see the delayed registration of deaths.
• Certificate of death is issued to the informant free of charge.

• Name of Deceased
• Date and Place of Death
• Fathers and Mothers Full name
• Sex and Race
• Age
• Rank of Profession
• Parents full name
• Cause of death and place of burial
• Registrars Division and District

You can register a deaths occurred at home by following the below instructions and procedure.

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Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

Sri Lanka Government Information Center - Registration of Deaths Occurred at Home http://www.gic.gov.lk/gic/index.php?option=com_info&task=info&id=9&lang=en

More information which might help people.